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Giacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social · 5d

Good news in rough times:
Our work on generalising Lifshitz-Slyosov-Wagner (LSW) theory to active systems, led by the all-mighty Jonathan Bauermann, is out on PRL!! Special thanks to Christoph Weber @m-pol.bsky.social and Frank Jülicher.

doi-org.sire.ub.edu/10.1103/f5x9...

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Zwicker Group @zwickergroup.bsky.social · 6d

Another pre-print from our group see's the light of day! 🎉 This time we how the coarsening of droplets is affected by advection and reactions: arxiv.org/abs/2510.00827 @stefankoestler2025.bsky.social describes our surprising findings in the thread below ⤵️

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 12d

Also a big congratulations to @larshubatsch.bsky.social, @daxiaosun.bsky.social and all the other recipients of the Independence Accelerator Award. Wish you'll the best in your next scientific endeavours. 🔬📖🤞

www.spp2191.com/independence...

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to the @spp2191.bsky.social and @gbmev.bsky.social for the amazing organisation of the "GBM Compact: Focus on Condensate Biology" Conference and the SPP2191 Satellite Meeting. 🧬💧

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 16d

Great to see the role of phase separation in the culinary world being recognised. 🧀🍝 A huge congratulations to @gbart.bsky.social and collaborators!

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 23d

Looking back on the "Emergence and Self-organisation in Biological Systems" conference last month @esbs2025.bsky.social, celebrating the contributions of Prof. Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social to the field (and his birthday 🎂). Was a great conference, catching up with lots of familiar faces.

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · 27d

Was super fun to host the Michaels Group from ETH for a collaborative visit last week. 🤝 As a coincidental bonus, we celebrated the Autumn Augsburg Plärrer Folkfestival together with lots of laughs, drinks and great discussions. 🍻

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Aug 20

A sneak peak into our yearly summer group retreat with the Comp. Bio Group of Prof. Nadine Schwierz and the Stat. Physics of Life Group of Prof. Abhinav Sharma in Sion, Switzerland. Was a great chance to spend time in nature, and to share and discuss exciting new collaborations. ☀️⛰️🫕

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share our new JACS paper "Controlling Multiphase Coacervate Wetting and Self‑Organization by Interfacial Proteins"
Together with our fantastic collaborators @spruijtlab.bsky.social l we show how surface-active proteins tune condensate architecture and organization.

Controlling Multiphase Coacervate Wetting and Self-Organization by Interfacial Proteins

Biomolecular condensates help organize biochemical processes in cells and synthetic cell analogues. Many condensates exhibit multiphase architectures, yielding compartments with distinct functions. Ho...

pubs.acs.org

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WeberLab@McGill @weber-lab.bsky.social · May 29

David @zwickergroup.bsky.social gives the first tutorial of the biomol25 program @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social, reminding us that phase equilibria and chemical equilibria are coupled by thermodynamics

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WeberLab@McGill @weber-lab.bsky.social · Jun 2

Shura Grosberg (NYU) gives a fantastic blackboard talk @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social on liquid-liquid phase separation in and out of equilibrium 👨‍🏫

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Job Boekhoven @boekhovenlab.bsky.social · Apr 25

How can a cell control the size of its organelles?

Excited to share a mechanism to control droplet size we recently found.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Chemically Active Wetting" is now published! 📖
We explore what happens when wetting meets out of equilibrium binding: Active binding shapes droplets like charges shape electrostatic fields - giving rise to pancake- or mushroom-shaped droplets. 🧪💧
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Apr 14

@pranayjaiswal.bsky.social just got back from presenting a poster at the @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social conference in Harrogate, with some great conversations and feedback (and even great weather this time round ☀️). A big thank you to the organisers.

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Apr 10

Was a super fun and competitive day in the Physics Faculty at the University of Augsburg, with the yearly Futsal Institute Cup taking place again. Thanks to everyone who played, contributed and cheerlead. 🎉 👏 Looking forward to next years event! ⚽

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Jerelle Joseph @jerelleaj.bsky.social · Mar 12

This summer in beautiful Santa Barbara we will run a 3-day conference on “Biological Physics of Biomolecular Condensates: Bridging Theory and Experiment” June 16 to 18th. Register now: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/b...

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · Mar 31

Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Mar 26

Was a great week at the #DPG Spring Meeting in #Regensburg this year! With a lots of great talks and posters from the community. @advait-thatte.bsky.social, Susanne Liese and Christoph spoke about some of the research done in our group. Looking forward to next year's meeting! 🧪🔬

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Isabella Graf @isabellagraf.bsky.social · Mar 24

We are organizing a conference for young researchers at the intersection between physics & biology: www.embl.org/about/info/c... @embl.org @events.embl.org @intcha.bsky.social
Please consider applying/registering -- the deadline is already in one week!

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Lars Hubatsch @larshubatsch.bsky.social · Jan 7

1/6 🧪 Preprint-Alert!
We looked at how molecules move across phase boundaries, e.g., in liquid droplets, taking into account that chemical potentials inside and outside the boundary can be different!

This unites recent work with stuff from the 60s and has cool consequences 👇
shorturl.at/j0U6i

Transport kinetics across interfaces between coexisting liquid phases

We investigate the kinetics of material transport across interfaces in phase-separated mixtures. Using non-equilibrium thermodynamics we derive the interfacial kinetics, describing the movement of the...

www.biorxiv.org

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Mar 20

Active droplets far from equilibrium can become excitable, enabling excited trajectories upon perturbations and self-sustained cycles of formation and dissolution 🌀
@hiddevuijk.bsky.social
@ivarhaugerud.bsky.social
Great collab with @boekhovenlab.bsky.social

preprint 🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2503.11604

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Mar 20

List of the projects in the session: www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/year/2025/co...

www.dpg-verhandlungen.de

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Mesoscopic Physics of Life (MPoL) @m-pol.bsky.social · Mar 20

Was a great poster session at DPG during the BP 14 session in Regensburg. Lots of great projects on bacterial biophysics, computational biophysics, membranes and vesicles, synthetic life-like systems and origin of life, systems and networks biophysics! #DPG

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Job Boekhoven @boekhovenlab.bsky.social · Feb 27

Check out the video highlight of our recent work! youtube.com/shorts/MCJEb...

It looks like life, but… | Headline Science

YouTube video by American Chemical Society

youtube.com

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